Using the army to fight crime will be a bad move

SANDF army parading in the streets of Mthatha after the 14 South African Infantry Batalion was bestowed the Freedom of Mthatha by the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality.
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LULAMILE FENI

The SA government is going back to being a military state.

The problem with our current government is that the minister of police [Fikile Mbalula] can't even handle a pistol but he is now rushing to use people who are handling rifles, sub-machine guns, bazookas and so on.

We are not a fascist country. How can the minister of police jump from swearing at criminals to touting military weapons as a solution to ordinary crime?

The problem with Mbalula is that he thinks that pointing a machine gun at a person, whether he is a thug or thief, is a solution to lowering crime in the country. Mbalula, please depend on the police for now. Time will tell whether the military can be used to curb crime in South Africa.